-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Linux rescues a failing hard drive
,----[ Quote ]
| Over Thanksgiving, I had to deal with a
| Windows XP laptop, belonging to a relative,
| that blue screened during startup. Normal
| startup failed, as did safe mode, safe mode
| with command prompt and Last Known Good.
|
| The first question that always needs to be
| answered in these situations is whether the
| problem is hardware or software. To that
| end, I booted the computer using my
| favorite rescue disc, the Ultimate Boot CD
| for Windows (UBCD4WIN).
|
| The CD started, from the main menu, I chose
| to run UBCD4WIN, but it eventually hung on
| a totally blank screen.
|
| [...]
|
| I do travel with a copy of Linux on a USB
| flash drive, but the computer was too old
| to boot off a USB connected device.
|
| So I removed the hard drive from the laptop
| and took it home. That the hard drive
| rattled when shaken did not make me
| optimistic.
`----
http://blogs.computerworld.com/15168/linux_rescues_a_failing_hard_drive
One More Turkey? 'Fired for Using Linux'
,----[ Quote ]
| It's still not uncommon to find sites that
| don't work with Firefox, Slashdot blogger
| Barbara Hudson told LinuxInsider.
|
| "My first response is to try with Opera;
| sometimes it works," she said. "After that,
| I boot my laptop into Windows, do the
| updates that have accumulated in the six
| months since the last time I booted
| Windows, then go to the site."
`----
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/68754.html
Related:
When Mac Owners Think Their Hardware is Broken
,----[ Quote ]
| I've run into an interesting phenomenon concerning the Macintosh.
| Various "broken Macs" can be found from among the vast population of
| nontechnical Macintosh users. These folks believe so strongly in the
| Macintosh software that when their system stops working, they decide that the
| hardware is broken, and often replace it, when it's really software that is
| the problem.
`----
http://technocrat.net/d/2008/7/17/46004
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAksU7t8ACgkQU4xAY3RXLo4xegCfa5h14y3yWTiJ9XyR0njLvZUu
e3cAoK7r6YQp9iKgEKAeDUwLq4rv8rDL
=Oa9e
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
|
